Editing Pensaukee, Wisconsin (section)

==History==

===Name origin===
The name ''Pensaukee'' is of [[Menominee language|Menominee]] origin, reflecting the town's origin as a [[Menominee]] settlement. It is derived from ''pindj-sau-gee'' 'inside the mouth of a river'.<ref>{{cite news|title=Indian Names Abound in State, Charlie Gives Meaning of Some |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/846444/wisconsin_toponyms_of_native_american/|newspaper=The Post-Crescent|date=March 24, 1960|page=10|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|access-date = August 11, 2014 }} {{Open access}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Terrible 90 Seconds Lay Waste Peaceful 19th Century Village: Devastating Tornado Stunted Pensaukee |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/846175/pensaukee_tornado/|newspaper=The Post-Crescent|date=February 25, 1962|page=40|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|access-date = August 11, 2014 }} {{Open access}}</ref> An alternative derivation is from the Menominee word ''Apǣhsahkyah'' '[[Brant (goose)|brant goose]]'.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www4.uwsp.edu/museum/menomineeClans/places/chart.aspx|title=Menominee Place Names in Wisconsin|last=Hoffman|first=Mike|website=The Menominee Clans Story|access-date=October 5, 2018}}</ref>
The town established a post office in 1855. It remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1957. <ref> https://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=WI&county=Oconto&searchtext=&pagenum=2 </ref>
===The Pensaukee Tornado===
[[File:Emma Chesley gravestone 1877.jpg|thumb|left|170px|Gravestone of a victim of the Pensaukee Tornado (Evergreen Cemetery, Oconto, WI)]]
The lumbering community of Pensaukee was largely destroyed on July 7, 1877, by a tornado, estimated at F3 intensity on the [[Fujita scale]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Grazulis |first1=Thomas P. |title=Significant tornadoes, 1680-1991: A Chronology and Analysis of Events |date=1993 |publisher=Environmental Films |location=St. Johnsbury, Vermont |isbn=1-879362-03-1 |page=591}}</ref> The death toll included four children and two adults, as well as 32 injuries, many horses and cattle killed, and 50 buildings destroyed, including the town's hotel (the Gardner House), sawmill, flour mill, boarding house, school, depot, and many houses and barns.<ref>Hall, George E. 2009. ''A History of Oconto.'' 2nd ed., edited by Duane Ebert and Pamela Ann Loberger. Oconto, WI: Oconto County Historical Society, pp. 118–121.</ref> The names of those killed in the two-minute disaster were reported in a telegram as "L. Zanto [Louis Zanto, 35 years old], H. Baumgardner [Herman Baumgartner, 9 years], Jr., Albert Blackbird [7 years], Mrs. E. R. Chesley [Emma Chesley, née Golather, 27 years], an infent {{sic}} of Farley [George Farley, 2 years], and an infant of L. Zanto [Lizzie Zanto, 6 months]."<ref>Hintz, Martin. 2010. ''Forgotten Tales of Wisconsin''. Charleston, SC: The History Press, pp. 40–41.</ref>
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